MANILA, Philippines 鈥� Forty-four percent of Filipino adults expect their quality of life to improve in the next 12 months, according to a Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey.聽
The survey showed that 44 percent of Filipinos believe their quality of life would improve (optimists), another 44 percent see no change,聽 7 percent think it would worsen (pessimists), and the remaining 6 percent did not respond.
The survey was conducted from March 21 to 25 using face-to-face interviews with 1,500 adults 18 years old and older.
Six hundred survey participants are from Balance Luzon or areas outside Metro Manila within Luzon, and 300 each from Metro Manila, Visayas, and Mindanao.聽
鈥淭he sampling error margins are 卤2.5 percent for national percentages, 卤4.0 percent for Balance Luzon, and聽 卤5.7 percent each for Metro Manila, the Visayas, and Mindanao,鈥� SWS said.
The data also revealed that net personal optimism (the percentage of optimists subtracted by the percentage of pessimists) has slightly decreased to +37 compared to SWS鈥� last survey in December, which was at 39+ 鈥� both聽 classified as 鈥渧ery high.鈥�
鈥淐ompared to December 2023, Net Personal Optimism fell from excellent to very high in聽 Mindanao, down by 11 points from +43 to +32. It stayed excellent in Metro Manila, although down by 5 points from +47 to +42,鈥� SWS said on Monday.
鈥淚t stayed high in the Visayas, although down by 3 points from +27 to +24. It stayed excellent in Balance Luzon, up by 4 points from +40 to +44,鈥� SWS added.
In addition, SWS found that 46 percent of Filipino families believe they are poor, 30 percent said they are 鈥渂orderline鈥� (by placing themselves on a horizontal line dividing poor and not poor), and 23 percent said they are not poor.
Net personal optimism was also highest at +49 for adults who consider themselves 鈥渘ot poor,鈥� followed by those who are 鈥渂orderline鈥� at +43, and lowest at +28 for adults who consider themselves 鈥減oor.鈥�
The SWS likewise observed that net personal optimism increased for those who graduated college or took postgraduate studies from +38 to +44.聽
It decreased, however, for those who finished junior high school, finished senior high school, completed vocational school, or enrolled in vocational schooling, senior high school and聽 college from +45 to +43.
It also decreased in those who either finished elementary or took high school education, from +36 to +32, and in those who did not have formal education or took elementary education, from +24 to +19.